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Council Minutes of 8/15195 Mr. Lmd did not have a committee report but wished to comment on the frequent electrical power losses during the recent storms, especially in Ward 2. He has been in contact with CEI, and they are now conducting reliability tests on the entire power distribution system in the northeastern quadrant. Mr. Nashar commented that he had also contacted CEI about the frequency of power outages in his ward. Mr. McKay, Chairperson of the Streets & Drainage and Infra-Governmental Relations, Legislation and Long-Range Planning Committees: 1) He has received a cornication from the Board of Building Code Appeals regarding the property maintenance code that was recently passed. The Board would like to make a change in the notitrcation rule for appeals because it presently does not conform to the other boards and comrrriseions. Mr. McKay will convene a Legislation Committee meeting to discuss this issue. AUDIENCE PARTICIPATION Frank Gellert, 4336 Lansing Drive, spoke about the on-going sanitary flooding problems at his home. Mr. Gellert has come before Council many times to complain about the floodmg; he has had flooding since 1972 when the storm sewers were firs metalled. Mayor Boyle reminded Mr. Gellert that the last time his basement flooded the city did send a crew out to investigate his problems. In addition, the city asked United Survey to do some of the testing. It was discovered that some of the problems were on Mr. Geffert's property and were not problems that the city could address. The city has cleared up all the flooding problems that it could address, but there are problems on Mr. Geffert's property that must be addressed by him. Mayor Boyle stated that Mr. Geffen had received a copy of the engineering report, but he would resurrect it and send him another copy and copies to Council as well. Ray Dress, 28601 North Park Drive, spoke about floodmg problems in his neighborhood. He would like the city to prepare maps of the sewer system for residents of the Forest Ridge development to see during their upcoming flood meeting. Mayor Boyle agreed that at previous flood meetings the maps that were available were not in a form that the residents could easily underhand. We are addressing this concern. The Mayor also suggested that the residents meet beforehand and submit a li~ of questooner-this will help move the meeting along. Mr. Dress also questioned the maintenance schedule of ditches. He has lived in his house for 18 years and does not remember the ditches being worked on in that time. Mr. Boehmer, who lives across the street from Mr. Dress, said that the ditches have been cleaned several times in the past 10 years. Eric Phillips, 5676 Allendale Drive, spoke on behalf of the residents of Allendale Drive, Carey Lane, Butternut Ridge Road and Cohunbia Road who are concerned about floodmg. The residents have done research on the problem by acquiring blueprints, actually lifting manhole covers and walking through ditches. They are convinced that the flooding problems relate to the construction of the Butternut Ridge Apartments and the Moen buildmg. Before these buildings were bunt, there were isolated flooding incidents but nothing on so large a scale as what is now occurring. The storm sewers of these two 7 1s-. ...